A closer look at test scores for English learners, magnet schools and charters

More than three million students across California traded in pencils for computers to take their standardized tests last school year. You might have read about the statewide results of the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress: More than half of the state's public school students in grades 3 to 8 and 11th grade failed to meet benchmarks for college readiness. The test is new and considered harder than previous ones -- and scores did increase from 2015, the first year scores were reported. But they remained low -- and certain groups, such as black students, lagged behind. Some schools and districts performed very well.